Three Revenue Cycle Trends to Watch

Three Revenue Cycle Trends to Watch

An increasing need for timely insurance claims processing and reimbursement in a rapidly changed healthcare market is sparking a growing need in the industry for more — and better — revenue cycle management support.

A recent report from Global Market Insights shows the healthcare revenue cycle management market reached $39 billion in 2015, and is expected to continue to grow at a rate of 11 percent annually between 2016 and 2024. The report highlights three trends underlying that growth and impacting revenue cycle professionals and the healthcare provider organizations they serve:

The medical coding process is becoming more complex even as the need for efficient claims processing increases, underscoring the critical role of professional revenue cycle management solutions to reduce billing errors.

The significant growth in revenue cycle spending in the healthcare sector through 2024 could lead to the government implementing cost-cutting measures.

Physician billing organizations are a major end user of revenue cycle: they comprised 40 percent of the overall healthcare revenue cycle management market in 2015, and that percentage is expected to grow at a rate of 12.3 percent through 2024.

Parallel growth in revenue cycle technology and products underscores the increasingly important role of healthcare revenue cycle in the healthcare market of the future.

In response to these trends, Regent Revenue Cycle Management (Regent RCM) continues to pioneer strategies for ambulatory surgery centers, developing, executing, and refining ASC-specific revenue cycle management solutions as well as investing time and resources in the technology, training and staffing to help ASC leaders stay profitable in the changing healthcare marketplace.